If you read Alli’s post yesterday, you just got a tiny peek into one of the major things I never signed up for: when Alli married into the military, in a sense, I did, too. The moral dilemma she described, being married to a soldier during a time of a controversial war, multiplied beyond her–and created […]
Parental baggage
Most of us inherit some psychological “baggage” from our parents. The stuff we carry around for a lifetime which makes us who we are; the stuff we try to unload or understand at some point if we’re lucky. When we become parents, we continue the cycle, loading baggage onto our own kids, the stuff that will […]
Relative Differences
Sarah Palin is everywhere. On every magazine cover, every TV screen, and now she’s taken over my entire incoming email, plus my phone calls and conversations. Everyone wants to talk about Sarah. I still have a lot to say–but I planned to take the weekend off. So it was a relief this morning when,as predicted, my […]
On My Mother's Birthday
Bargain Shopping
I often hear parents complain about kids who seem to think the definition of infinity is the balance in their parents’ checkbook. I’ve never had that issue with my kids, both of whom are ridiculously thrifty—possibly because they’ve been trained by the master: not me; their father. (I will admit he also gave me an […]
Reach out and Touch … Your Mom
Since I’m out of town, I planned to write this blog on my laptop but technology hates me. And the feeling is mutual. I could not connect the laptop to the internet so I’m forced to use the computer in the hotel lobby and I’m not sure how coherent this blog will be. And my […]
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